Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

hmm...Thanks Robert.

Fine Robert. Could you please share the program you talked about?

This is great question. Is there no other way apart from SMF records? It looks like a very necessary statistics every company would want to have, there is no easy way for this?

I think, set a breakpoint after anywhere where you suspect abend can happen, press F12. It'd stop there, PF9.

I think interviewer was confusing you. For an interview I could have converted input filed to sequential files and run a SORT to get the output. Wouldn't that just work?

Thanks Robert.

Can a DEPENDING ON CLAUSE be of better choice in this case? My original table does not have that definition.

Thank you so much Anuj. This has help helped immensely.

Thank you Robert.

I have asked about using SSRANGE but it's not allowed in production. I looked at about it online too but looks like most of companies don't use it in production. Then how do we solve the table-overflow problem in COBOL, is there a way?

Hi, Today we got an abend in production. It was for a COBOL IMS program. It calls a DB2 sub-program and some date routines also. Abend was S0C1. When we analyzed it came to the point that IMS was giving the status-code 'AD'. We looked for it and below are the details: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims...

Hi Robert, I should have said that I already did that. But I could not really understand that how can one become a part of it? All I understood that it is a collaborative Project and encourages to use Linux on mainframes. But if a programmer like me wants to become participant of it, how do we do it...

Thanks for TYPRUN=SCAN, that is helpful. But it's not very much equal to JEM or JSCAN.

I think it's okay to start the career with it. And in India anyways we don't have a choice when we start a fresher we just get to start with what technology we are given. By the time you are 7-8 years experience mainframes salaries are not good compared to other technologies. But JAVA is also not th...

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I wanted to learn channel/containers on CICS. Is CICS available on Hercules? Please advise.

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Could someone please guide on it?

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Could anyone know about the "open mainframe"?

I have tried using hercules but it's touch to maintain the system itself. Is there a way to keep it stable?

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Is there a possibility to run JEM or JSCAN in batch? If yes, how can we do that?

When I usually would want to scan a given job for errors , I use JEM or JSCAN on the job. How can one scan a job for errors in the batch mode?